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    Type 2 Osteoporosis, alendronic acid and blood sugar levels

    Help, I have just been diagnosed with osteoporosis and started on alendronic acid a couple of weeks ago. Have unfortunately got a bad sinus infection and started taking penicillin yesterday. I don’t test my blood sugar all that often these days but for some reason I did mine before lunch today...
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    Type 2 Blood sugars and antibiotics

    Hi, I've just been given a five day course of Prednisolone 30mcg a day along with 500mcg Amoxil 3x a day. Took my steroids at lunch time yesterday and two of the antibiotics and woke up with my blood sugar at 7.2! That's really high for me, normally a bad result would be 6.0 - I've always had a...
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    Type 2 High-ish morning readings

    Hi, I was diagnosed with T2 in November last year. It was steroid induced. I was given three months to see if I could control it with diet and exercise which I did. Mainly I think because I bought my own blood testing machine and followed Dr Cavan's advice. After three months I am no longer...
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    Can your HbA1c keep going down?

    I've got mine reduced to 38mmol /5.6% and I'm now no longer considered to be T2. I'm obviously not going to start eating the sort of carbs and food that got me to being T2 in the first place but by staying on a LCHF and exercising every day will my HbA1c go down further? I've noticed on here...
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    Type 2 Just starting out

    i was diagnosed with T2 in early December. I was taking part in a pre diabetes study so I know I definitely wasn't diabetic a year before that. They think I was tipped over the edge by a course of steroids I was given for my inflammatory arthritis. I went totally GF when I started the steroids...